By Neil Sowerby IT”S not been unlike awaiting the Spanish Armada. El Gato Negro’s arrival is still a way over the horizon. The acclaimed tapas restaurant will only complete its voyage from Ripponden to the ...
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Pot Kettle Black – RL stars’ indie coffee haven boosts the Barton Arcade
WE love the word banter in sport. It covers everything from gentle ribbing in the showers to full-on abuse at a team-mate’s metrosexual tendencies. So we’d like to have been a fly on the wall ...
The French Introduces £50 Lunchtime Tasting Menu With Wine
BARGAINS are always relative but top-end London restaurants seem to have offered better value with lunch deals than their Manchester equivalents. Now the city’s highest profile culinary destination (inexplicably lacking Michelin star recognition), Simon Rogan ...
Requiem For Doomed Room And A Spate of New arrivals – Welcome to 2015
By Neil Sowerby THERE’S me mourning for the loss of my favourite London restaurant, Racine in Knightsbridge – Francophile chef Henry Harris has sold up because of a “changing demographic’ in the area – when ...
Filthy Cow – Saucy New Burger Champion For Manchester
JUST when you thought the Burger Boom might be sagging in its buns along comes a new wave. NQ dirty food dynamos Solita, not content with expanding into Didsbury now plan to add North Manchester ...
Solita to open a Prestwich restaurant on the site of Aumbry
NORTH Manchester residents will no longer have to travel into the Northern Quarter or out to Didsbury to get their fill of Big Manc burgers and Jaffa Cake ice cream cake – or current dessert ...
The Taste of Sakana – Great Value Introduction To This Pan-Asian Jewel
SAKANA made a sensational arrival in Manchester city centre in the late autumn, adding huge shot of glamour to Peter Street. The huge steel maple tree artwork dominating the split-level premises is already the stuff ...
Spectacular Chef Line Up at Northern Restaurant And Bar 2015
MARCH 17 and 18 at Manchester Central is already pencilled in by the northern food industry and its fans as the big event of the year – the NRB. It seems the world is starting ...
Celebrate New Year's Eve with Sakana
Join Sakana to celebrate New Year 2014, with an evening full of great food, drinks, entertainment and lots of fun.Earlybird 4 course dinner £40 per person (up to 19:30)NY 4 course Dinner £60 per person ...
Christmas Egg? A taste of Manchester in Albert Square
ADMIT it – you’ve had enough German sausage to last you until next year’s Christmas Markets. Now, as the Markets are about to shut up shop, it’s time seek a special pre-Christmas culinary treat from ...